It was inside Kowloon walled city. The bomb went off. Nobody noticed a difference.

... Sam Bell and GERTY right on it.

It's more likely that USB-D power bricks will be compatible with old -C devices. Just support the -C power handshake. Which will make for a lot of orphaned -C bricks, destined for the dump.

Or the APOE4 variant mice realized that they were giving their lives for a poorly designed experiment. They just figured, "Screw it" and stood out where they figured an owl would end it all.

King George III? The civil war?* Actually, characterizing our revolution as a "civil war" isn't entirely incorrect. But then we went off and had another one about a hundred years later. Over some woke GOP agenda. Perhaps it's time for another. To keep the Left Coast from falling under foreign influence.

*Almost as funny as as Belushi's remark about the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor. You probably had the same history professor.

True. So true.

I guess this is why they say the left can't meme.

... expose those two genetic groups to micro plastic free drinking water as well? And then do an analysis of their relative cognitive abilities? Because it would seem to be difficult to seperate the effects of the two independant variables without doing so.

The ghost of Enron.

... switching the company to Linux.

Which is pants on head retarded.

Both from a moral level, keeping people in debt to ensure they're indentured to someone and from a business perspective as it's a imperial shitton (about 1.8 Metric fuckloads) of risk. In case you don't remember the last time the banks over-leveraged on risky customers, it was only 2008, there was a massive collapse we're still feeling the effects of.

I'm glad my country doesn't have anything of the sort. Experian are trying to "sell" their credit score system but no-one is buying. When you apply for credit here (I.E. home or car loan) your existing credit obligations including potential ones (like a credit card or phone contract) are listed as risks and detract from the amount you can borrow.

I think everyone is over thinking this. NVidia need to do something with that money they're drowning in and there's only so much that can be syphoned off to tax havens before everyone starts asking questions. If they kept it, they'd need to pay tax on it and we can't have that.

What's surprised me in the processor market is AMD making inroads in the laptop space that Intel owned for decades, even when AMD were dominating on the desktop and had very strong server offerings (the Athlon 64/Opteron days, for those who's memories stretch back that far). 15% of laptops are now AMD.

Upgrading budget laptops is how you save.

I have a cheap Asus gaming laptop for travel. It cost me £550 and most of that was for the RTX3050. I was able to pop the back off, add in another 8 GB of RAM, doubling the original and replace the 512 GB SSD with a faster 1TB for less than £100, the next model up that had the same amount of RAM was over £200 more expensive (but it did have a 3060 to be fair).

A lot of budget laptops are deliberately underspec'd to force people afraid to upgrade to buying a far more expensive laptop.

All of this is a moot point anyway, Apple have been hostile to upgrades and repairs for decades, they already spend extra to solder in the hard drives and ram modules. Also anyone who didn't predict that they'd be killing off the Mac line for phone based ones? Anyone still denying that? Mac OS being killed off is next.

That's still 3 million people of the ext. 300 million laptops that get sold each year.

And I'm willing to bet a lot of people are like me who buy a lower spec'd model where I can upgrade the RAM and SSD on the cheap saving a hundred quid off the more expensive one.

However that's besides the point, Apple have been openly hostile to people who want to upgrade (and consumers in general) for years. Plenty of other manufacturers to choose from though.

As a side effect, they're going to become a huge vector for malware.

A fridge will last for a decade or more, they'll stop doing software updates after 7 years maximum, maybe even as low as 2. In fact some may never receive a software update.